Magic Horn

The Hearing Trumpet

【Editor's Recommendation】
🐚 The only novel by Leonora Carrington, a talented artist, the last survivor of Surrealism, and a featured figure at the 2022 Venice Art Biennale, is now published in simplified Chinese for the first time!
She was once the darling of the Surrealist art circle in the Dreamers, and Luis Buñuel, André Breton, and Max Ernst were all fascinated by her;
After Surrealism became history, she was recognized as the movement's last survivor;
Her paintings were sold at Sotheby's for a whopping $3.25 million;
In 2022, she was selected as the featured artist of the Venice Art Biennale, once again allowing the world to appreciate her charm;
Leonora Carrington's representative novel - simplified Chinese version is introduced for the first time!
🐚 Old women tear off the lady veil they have worn all their lives and turn thorny fantasies into wild reality!
“Perhaps old age is the only time in our lives when we can finally be ourselves.
Not having to worry about the needs of others or conform to the societal norms we’re constantly being taught to obey.”
Who says that the protagonist of an adventure story can only be a young boy who has not yet grown out of his childishness?
When a ninety-year-old woman becomes the protagonist, she no longer obeys the discipline and shackles of a lady.
More weird, more bizarre, more rebellious plots are coming...
🐚 The elderly version of "Alice in Wonderland" + medieval nun legend + mysterious ancient legend + human fable. The bitter experience of being forced to live in a nursing home breaks the boundary between reality and fiction like traveling through a "wormhole in time and space".
From then on, you embark on a magnificent, unrestrained and wild journey of no return, seeking the eternal wisdom about human freedom and survival!
🐚 Nobel Prize winner in Literature Tokarczuk wrote a lengthy introduction, and film master Buñuel highly praised this little book. The lawless language style and absurd and abnormal core of this book gave people a strong impact, which I will never forget.
——Olga Tokarczuk Reading "The Devil's Horn" liberates us from the miserable reality of day after day.
——Luis Buñuel🐚 Designed by renowned designer Xihe, with illustrations hand-painted by the author's son, this compact, elegant and portable hardcover edition features a violet-bound spine and a plain cover, creating a visual juxtaposition of dynamic and elegant visuals.
The author's son hand-painted illustrations, with minimalist sketches recreating scenes from the novel and enriching the natural and surreal brushstrokes;
110*185 hardcover small format, a perfect companion for traveling and commuting.
【Content Introduction】
“Although freedom comes late in our lives,
But we will never give up our freedom again.”
92-year-old Marian was sent to a nursing home by her family wearing a hearing aid horn.
In the nursing home with a strange atmosphere, the old ladies work every day and receive guidance from doctors.
In the painting hanging on the wall, the mysterious woman seems to be winking at Marianne, guiding her to learn the strange anecdotes in the ancient books;
Her good friend Carmela comes to visit with some wild ideas, and the other old ladies in the nursing home also have their own plans.
Finally, a bizarre murder case broke the peaceful daily life...
【Media Recommendation】
The lawless language style and absurd and abnormal core of this little book gave me a strong impact and made me unforgettable for a long time.
- Olga Tokarczuk Her delirious fantasies allow us to glimpse some of the secret magic in her paintings... Reading The Magic Horn liberates us from the miserable reality of our day-to-day lives.
—Luis Buñuel "The Devil's Corner" reads at first like an Agatha Christie domestic thriller, but it's melted, fused by intense heat into something else entirely... It asks the reader to allow for darkness, wildness, and to rethink the workings of power. It's a work of optimism...one of the most original, joyous, satisfying, and visionary novels of the 20th century.
—Ally Smith Carrington transforms personal experience into something more deceptive and more interesting… In this novel, the fantasy of something grand becomes a real force.
—The Paris Review
Although better known as a Surrealist painter, Leonora Carrington creates a brilliant female fantasy in this novel, in which old age becomes a joyous adventure.
—The Guardian, "1,000 novels everyone must read"

2023-08-01

广西师范大学出版社

wild spring

304

9787559858474